Surgery – Endoscope – With guide means for body insertion
Patent
1994-08-08
1997-07-01
Dvorak, Linda C.
Surgery
Endoscope
With guide means for body insertion
600120, 600194, A61B 104
Patent
active
056431740
ABSTRACT:
A guide tube comprising a tube body having a throughhole penetrated therethrough in the axial direction and a mouthpiece provided at the rearward end of the tube body, or comprising a tube body having a throughhole penetrated therethrough in the axial direction, a connector provided at the rearward end of the tube body and a mouthpiece engageable with and detachable from the connector, the tube body being embedded with a coil spring in the tube wall and cut slantly to the axial direction at the forward end, and the mouthpiece having a circular or elliptical cross-sectional shape, a rib at the forward end and a flange at the rearward end, and the connector being in a structure engageable with and detachable from the mouthpiece and having at the rearward end a sealing film member with a slit or a perforation at the center facilitates passage of an endoscope through the phalynx to the esophagus, simplifies washing of or aspiration from the esophagus or stomach and shortens the treating time and reduces a painful burden on patients much more, when the engageable and detachable mouthpiece is used.
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Izumi Yasunobu
Suzuki Zenetu
Yamamoto Manabu
Dvorak Linda C.
Flanagan Beverly M.
Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
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